5 Micro Job Sites To Make Money Online

Working on micro job sites is the easiest way of making money online. Yes! you heard it right. Anyone can make money online from micro job sites just by completing a few short tasks such as signing up to websites, subscribing to Youtube channels, commenting on Youtube videos, sharing/liking Facebook posts, posting on forums or blogs etc. But the number of legit micro job websites are less than the so-called micro job sites which are only running scam & worth no one's time. So, it is very important to know which micro job websites are legit and paying regularly to its workers, so you don't end up wasting your valuable time working on a scam site.

5 legitimate micro job sites:

Here is a list of 5 legitimate micro job websites to work on and make money from home online.

1. Amazon Mechanical Turk

MTurk aka Amazon Mechanical Turk is a renowned micro job's platform developed by Amazon where requesters(employers) request to complete HITs(Human Intelligence Tasks) and get results according to their requests. This giant micro job's website is in the business since 2005 and since then hundreds of thousands of workers have been registered there until now.

If you want to earn $5/hour doing some micro jobs such as transcribing, rating, image tagging, taking part in surveys, and writing then MTurk is probably the best choice. Though their policy of accepting HITs(jobs) is a bit strict and there are two or three payment options available for receiving payments, nevertheless Amazon Mechanical Turk holds the number one spot on our list of 5 legitimate micro job sites.

Minimum Payout: $3.00

Payment Options: Amazon Payment, Amazon Gift Card.

2. Microworkers

Microworkers is one of the most popular micro job sites of recent times. Simple user interface, five payment options including Paypal for receiving payments and flexibility of accepting jobs makes Microworkers the easiest micro tasking website. You can earn up to $5/day just by working for 2 hours on this website.

Workers have to maintain their success rate above 75% at all times to be able to accept jobs and have to go through an address verification process at the time of placing their first withdrawal request which takes 1-4 weeks (depends on mailing services and locations) to complete. Despite these hassles, Microworkers is still a powerful contender of MTurk and therefore achieves the 2nd place on our list of 5 legit micro job sites.

Minimum Payout: $5.00 + fee.

Payment Options: Transpay, Airtm, Skrill, Payoneer, Paypal.

[Note: For Payoneer, the minimum payout is $20.00 + fee.]

3. Rapidworkers

Rapidworkers is one of the best alternatives to Microworkers. This website has a cool feature which allows workers to filter jobs according to location, time, rate etc. In terms of job's availability, this micro tasking platform is simply the best. Having said that their available jobs list is full of crappy job posts. Regardless of those crappy job posts, there still be 10-20 jobs available to you which are definitely more than enough.

Needless to say, workers from the USA can earn more from this micro job's website as they get more jobs and higher rates for completing tasks. Nevertheless, there are still enough opportunities in these micro jobs platform for international workers to earn up to $20-30/month working for 2 hours a day.

Minimum Payout: $8.00 + fee.

Payment Options: Paypal.

4. Clickworker

Clickworker is the first micro jobs platform to introduce a referral bonus option. Workers can earn up to €5 when each of their referred members earn & withdraw €10. Isn't that cool? On top of that, their payrate is very high compared to others and jobs are accessible on any smartphone or pc. Clickworker is a leading UHRS vendor, and UHRS alone as a crowd-sourcing platform of Microsoft provides ample of job opportunities. So, the question persists- 'How much a Clickworker can earn monthly?'.
Anyone can expect to earn up to €100-150 monthly on Clickworker, though earning €300+ monthly is also possible.

Minimum Payout: €5.00 for Payoneer. €10.00 for Paypal

Payment Options: Payoneer, Paypal.

[Note: There is no manual withdrawal option. Payments are auto made on weekly basis. When the payable balance reaches the minimum payout threshold according to selected payment option, payments are disbursed.]

5. Sproutgigs

Sproutgigs (previously Picoworkers) is one of the legit micro job sites to work and make some good amount of money online. Anyone can earn by posting gigs, doing micro jobs or completing surveys/offers etc. The interesting part is that you can earn in dollars and convert those earnings in to Litecoin, then you can always trade those Litecoins to get more out of your earnings. Sproutgigs has a referral signup bonus scheme whereas referrer gets 5% from each referred member's task/deposit. Sounds lucrative! right?

According to my experience, earning the first $10 on Sproutgigs was a challenging task. But I started receiving more and more tasks as soon as i withdrawn my first $10. Now earning $50+/month on this website looks easy-peasy.

Minimum Payout: $5.00

Payment Options: Airtm, Litecoin, Paypal, Skrill, Uphold

So, which one is the best micro job site here?

There can be no specific answer to this question. Frankly speaking, to some people Microworkers is the best micro jobs website whereas to some people it is MTurk. Let's leave it up to you to decide :)

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